the art to comb great crested grebes

collage: acryl and paper on cancas

These cute characters are in the middle of a heated discussion about the purpose of art...

“TALLAS” is an installation of a ficticious store where fifty body suits made of women of different ages, races and sizes are on display. It is common to see advertising where women are objectify, they are presented as objects to acquire or as accessories that give status.
This exhibition comes from the need to give a sincere representation which confronts the massive amount of advertising that exposes us to millons of images of the same woman, the “perfect one”. “TALLAS” surges from unretouched photographs that allow us to see wrinkles, scars, hair, beautiful “imperfections” of the bodies that grow, love, suffer, live.
¨TALLAS" invites us to put on someone else´s skin, to question what stops us from showing ourselves as we really are, and shows the irony of that everthing, specially our own nature, becomes part of what is for sale in the market.
“TALLAS” incites a reflexion about how society treats the female body. Examines the result of the objectification. Allows the visibility of marks that are still taboo in the standar view of beauty. Through this work I question the value of life in relation to arbitrary attributes such as our place of origin and our appearances.

Unique moments come across on everybodys path of life and it is my
understanding of photography to perceive and capture them and so did I.
In the photo series „homeland“ predominantly a single-use camera long
past its sell-by-date and digital black and white photography had been
used to capture ageless impressions. Aligned with feelings of freedom
and equilibrium I faced my native country, feeling an enormous bond
during the emotional realisation of parting, which caused pleasurable
sentiments of arrival.